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Originally Posted by Adrenaline Shots
Well, I like DIY stuff, but Im a lazy fuck, so I rarely get things on.
Anyway, this is a thing Ive been doing for a short while. I moved to a very hot place and I had to get serious when it came to cooling my dorm.
Its a very easy trick, but here it goes.
You need to have to open windows not very near one to the other, or a doorframe or exit through which to push the hot air out.
What you do:
1. Buy a formidable fan. Lasko is my personal favorite, because its pretty powerful, lightweight and made in America (fuck the Chinese!); although the plastic one is very noisy. If you can, then, get the metal one. It is a little more expensive, but also it is way more powerful and makes much less noise.
2. For better results, place the fan on what will be the outlet (where the hot air is to be pushed out) facing outside. This way, the fan will be blowing out all the hot air making a vacuum inside the room, which will then suck in fresh air through the other vent.
3. Obviously make at least two vents are open, one to push out the air from inside and one to suck in fresh air from the outside.
Its up to you whether you get the floor fan or the one with base. Or the hanging one. It depends on the set up of your windows, doors or other types of vents.
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A more efficient method would be to buy two of these fans, and put one in a window/door on the non-sunny side of your house. The air here is cooler, and is the air you want in your home on a hot day. Have this fan pull air in from outside and blow it into your house. If you are in a two-story house, put this fan on the bottom floor and on the non-sunny side of the house.
Next, on the second floor, as far from the other fan as you can on the sunny side of the house put the fan in a window sill or doorway facing outside the house.
this will create a much more balanced flow of air through the house and will make the air move faster.
Remember, stagnant air is hot air in a hot house.
Another alternative/addition to your cooling is to leave the door or ceiling panel to your attic ajar, and stick a small fan facing outwards at one of the small vents in your attic.... my house has these vents on both sides of my house. I actually put in some solar-powered fans into these vents, one facing out on one side, and one facing in on the other. This dropped my over all attic temperature in the middle of the summer in the middle of the day from about 105 degrees down to 85 degrees.
This in turn made the entire house much cooler. Infact, using no air-conditioning units at all, on a 100 degree day outside, I can make my house 60 degrees inside if I turn all the fans on high, and I plug the solar-powered fans in directly to a power circuit so they run at full capacity.
Simple physics really...
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